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PokerWorks’ Easy Guide to Creating Your PokerStars Home Game

You know you've always wanted to jump in an online poker game and play against all your friends without the rest of the world taking a seat. Now you can! PokerStars Home Game will be your new, favorite, poker playing meeting place; just follow our easy set-up guide and you'll be sending out buddy invitations before you know it!

At PokerStars Home Games you have your very own private members' club where you can play tournaments and cash games for real or play money. Invite anyone you want to your poker club and you can track tournament leaderboard standings too! Play with your buddies from all over the world and don't forget to chatter it up just like you would in your local home game since you're playing with 'invited' club members only.

Getting Started:

You need a PokerStars account (if you already have one, skip this step) and you can get one here at PokerWorks! Set up your new account with the confidence that you will be able to play in all of the exclusive promotions PokerWorks has with PokerStars.

Create Your Home Game

Click on the Home Games Tab in the poker lobby and then click on 'Create a Poker Club'

Name Your Club

Be sure to have fun with the name you pick for your club and make sure you pick a unique password in the 'invitation code' field.

Manage Your Club

Here you can select the color themes and images for the club and grant, suspend, and reinstate admin positions to players under the 'club manager' tab.

And you can invite new members by selecting the 'invite option' under 'How to Invite New Members' just by copy/pasting the instructions in an email to your buddies.

Choose Your Games

Here's the fun part, set up cash game tables that run 24/7 or decide on specific scheduled tournaments under the 'manage games' tab. You have mega choices here; tailor the game types, the format, the number of players, the starting stacks, and payout structure and more in your games.

The tournaments allow you to have league standings after every game and that opens the door to playing towards bigger prize or bragging rights.

Make the most of all the exclusive promotions PokerWorks has with PokerStars!